Ugly Quotes
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New things are always ugly.
Willa Cather
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As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.
Thomas Sowell
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We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
Lionel Shriver
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I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.
Saul Leiter
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He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.
Scott Westerfeld
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You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.
Marilyn Monroe
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Don't use your film for ugly purpose.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'
Ezra Taft Benson
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The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.
Boy George Culture Club
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There was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
Scott Westerfeld
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Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
John Lithgow
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I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R. D. Laing
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
Lupita Nyong'o
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel de Cervantes
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.
Michael Caine
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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
Donna Brazile
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Bitterness is so ugly.
Amy Heckerling
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
Alexander McQueen
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You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and c, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.
Michael Ende
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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson
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You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
John Barrasso
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Hernan always says that a perfect moment of beauty can last forever. But maybe some moments are so ugly that they never end, either. All you can do is be patient with yourself.
Charlie Jane Anders